So, guys we have big leak news for the new iPhone 17 Pro Max we have been told that these kinds of renders that you are seeing right here is what the iPhone 17 Pro Max could look like.
This leak right here from the information Wayne Mah has said that he has seen the designs for the new iPhone 17 Pro Max and has confirmed that the new camera shape on the back of the iPhone is going to be rectangular in 2025.
Comparison to Previous Phone Designs
Very similar to the likes of say an old Galaxy S kind of phone like the S10 had this and even the likes of say even the pixel phones actually have this kind of bar over the cross of the back of the iPhone. So, this is really really interesting to see.
He also goes on to actually say that titanium is no longer going to be the main material what the iPhone’s made out of, especially we’ve just got given to titanium recently to the iPhone 16 Pro Max and also the 15 Pro Max and the Pro Models. He’s saying this is not going to be the case and that we’re going back to aluminum.
Material Changes and Design Updates
In fact, what’s actually going to be happening is on the rear of the phone it’s actually going to be like a half and half so we’re going to have half aluminum and half glass mainly because of the actual sort of Mag Safe sort of charging so you can do that wireless charging capability.
But this is super interesting to see that this new design like you can see here in these renders going on right now is what we’re essentially going to be getting in 2025.
Reliability of the Leak Source
Now the first thing I do want to say about this leak, it has come from the information and I’m going to say this: the information has been right probably about 60 to 70% of the time. When they get information, they are normally mainly right but there’s bits of information what’s incorrect.
So maybe they’re wrong about the aluminum sort of idea, but the actual sort of camera on the rear being rectangular, well we’ve actually heard about this in the past before just like this leak you can see right here. This was earlier back in 2024 that we were told this was coming, so this has popped up again.
So, there is the potential that this could be happening now.
Design Evolution and User Reactions
What I want to say about that sort of rectangular sort of camera, some of you guys are going to say they absolutely hate it, you don’t like the design and things like this.
But do remember when we actually got leaks of say the iPhone 11 Pro coming out and also the iPhone 11 Pro Max, when we saw the three sort of little cameras in the sort of design, we have like right now on the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
A lot of you guys hated it, said it looked really really stupid with the free camera setup as a triangle, and as the years have gone by when we got to the 12 and then we got to the 13, the 14, 15, and 16, it’s now become like an iconic kind of design and we’re just used to this.
Adapting to New Designs
I think that this is going to probably be the same thing with Apple. If they are going to change it to this rectangular design, then obviously we just have to get used to that.
This is going to be their new type of design what they’re going to have going forward, so you know, you might grow to love it in the future.
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Potential Concerns: Vision Pro and Vertical Cameras
Now the other thing what I would say about this design is a lot of you people out there straight away probably going to say in the comments, “What about say The Vision Pro and also doing kind of sort of vision kind of like photography imaging and all of that?”
Because at the end of the day Apple even said that you need to actually have the cameras kind of in a vertical kind of position and especially this is what we got with the iPhone 16 normal for example and the 16 plus.
The camera’s got changed from the diagonal to this to make this work. Well, we’re going to have to wait and see what’s happening there. Maybe Apple might have found a way to sort of change the lenses around and sensors we just don’t know at the stage.
Uncertainty Regarding Features and Lens Changes
Maybe they have something that we just don’t know in a leak right now and that maybe they’re going to be working on something to make this work, or you never know, the actual feature could be just taken away altogether.
But personally, I highly doubt that’s going to be the case so we’ll just have to wait and see on that one.
iPhone 17 Air Leak
Now something else that the information also talked about was actually the iPhone 17 air and you can see here by the leak it actually says that the iPhone 17 air is actually going to be anywhere between 5 mm to 6 mm thick.
Now the last finished iPhone out there was the iPhone 6, so this was a long time ago and we’re looking for a phone that’s going to be slightly thinner than that. So between say the iPhone 6 kind of sort of thickness to say the iPad Pro M4 the 13in model kind of thickness somewhere in the middle.
Battery Life and Trade-offs
What we still don’t know is from Apple, is what’s this going to do with battery life and things like this and how is this going to take its turn?
But we’ve also seen though in this leak that things are going to be sacrificed. So for example, as we know already, there’s only going to be one camera on the rear and then also now it sounds like we’re going to be getting only just one speaker too. So yeah, it’s quite unusual what this new phone is going to be.
iPhone Air as Potential Replacement for iPhone SE
A lot of you guys have also even calculated that this new iPhone Air could even be the new SE. We’ll just have to wait and see and maybe that we might not even get an SE and we can just have this new iPhone Air instead. What’s going to replace that?
So we’ll just have to wait and see what more leaks are going to show about that.
Recap of iPhone 17 Pro Max Features
But the main thing that I would say to take away from this is obviously the iPhone 17 Pro Max looks like we are going to be getting this new design, and it’s also going to be made out of say half glass, half out of titanium or aluminum.
iPhone 17 Pro Max Release
Moving on then, when is the likelihood that we’re going to see the new iPhone 17 Pro Max and also the iPhone 17 and all the other models too? Well, most likely we’re going to see it released in September 2025; this is the most logical time we’re going to see it because Apple likes to release their kind of products around this time.
However, what I might say is if we are guessing this new design for the iPhone 17 Pro Max and the 17 Air, things might get delayed a little bit, but as we get closer to that time we will definitely find out, but traditionally Apple likes to announce their new sort of devices, their new products, whether that be like an iPhone in that September period around the sort of early teens, and then they actually like to release it into your hands kind of the end teens or so early 20s, around about 10 days.
iPhone 17 Pro Max increase it slightly maybe and even the 17 Pro and obviously the 17 air it’s going to probably cost more than the likes to say a 16 plus what it’s going to replace.